Empiricism (n.) borrows the hardness of the facts and mistakes it for its own — in itself empirical thinking is singularly feeble, always running after the facts and depending on them, hardly rising above classification.
An Empiricism (n.) finds similarities tiresome because they hide the singular object he has felt his way into — slow and viscid in thought, but fluid in empathy; if he could empathize object after object he would see their likeness better than the abstract thinker, who sees them only from outside.
The Empiricism (n.) knows that past provable facts he can at best dream, and thinks it immoral to mistake a dream for knowledge.
An Empiricism (n.) rather than a theorist is what Freud was, contrary to almost all his critics, who ignored his case histories, found his view of them "disgusting," and attacked only the theory.
An Empiricism (n.) by training, the doctor has always used medicines whose healing power he knew without understanding how they worked, and often seen scientifically attested remedies fail in practice.
The Empiricism (n.) was the only label Jung accepted among the many hung on him — Gnostic and agnostic, theist and atheist, mystic and materialist — citing "facts first and theories later."
The Empiricism (n.) feels a holy dread before philosophy's flood of concepts, which can swamp his small experimental gardens; his concepts serve to bring provisional order to chance, not to their own clarification.